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Souvenir  |prot3ramine 

of  tbc  services  attenMmj 

lEbe  jfittietb  Hnniversar^ 

of  the  ovt3ani3atton  of  the 

jfiret  H^rcsb^tcrian  Cburcb 

of 

flDanasquan,  flew  Jersey, 

Hpiil  10  -- 13, 
1808. 


Ipastors. 


Morse  Rowell.      --------  1850  —   1856 

*  Henry  K.  A\ery.  -------  1857  —    1858 

Samuel  Alden  Freeman,    -----  1864  —   1868 

Charles  F.  Worrell.  -     -     -     -     -     -     -  1872—1880 

Frederick  T.  Brown,      -     -     -     -     -     -  1881   —    1893 

Nathan  Dushane  Hynson.       -     -     -     -  1893  — 


Elbcrs. 


Thomas  J.  Brannin,      ordained  1848 

Lewis  E.  Bearce,  "  1856 

Daniel  Cook,  "  if^57 

The.idore  1).  Conover,        ■■  1857 

Stephen  1).  Conover,  ■■  1866 

James  \V.  Wight,  "  1866 

Thomas  I'.ell,  ■■  1866 


(iilbert  X,  Marcellns, 

irdai  ned 

1871 

Jacob  Holmes  Morris, 

1872 

Abram  0.  Curtis, 

1874 

Forman  ().  Bailey, 

1874 

Cieorijc  Bailey. 

1885 

Verdinand  S.  Stines, 

1889 

John  W.  Borden, 

1889 

S)cacon8. 


tieors^e  M.  Uaviscui,     ordained  1896 
Edgar  Pea rce,  "  i8g6 


William  Bowen,  ordained  1896 

Theodore  W.  Brewer,         ■'  i^Q? 


*     Mr.    .\viT.v's    pi.-tui-f    lia<    lieeu    nmitteil    froui    this    iiro<;valump.    becaune    of   our     inalnlit.v    to   «ecur 
photoyi-aph. 

«*     licic'.iiiH  wprc  I'lertfil  (lin-hiK  the  pastorate  of  Or.  Worrell,  hut  no  reeordB  of  such  apjjear. 


Samuel  al^cn  freeman,  3.  '£>. 


Mistodcal  Sketch. 

IHatban  ©ushanc  Wwnson. 


What  changes  hath  time  wroii'jht  ! 

Fifty  years  ago  the  site  of  our  pleasant  town  by  the  sea,  was  occupied,  for  the  most 
part,  by  the  Curtis  and  Pearce  farms.  There  were  a  little  cluster  of  buildings  about  what  is 
now  the  centre  of  the  town,  a  few  detached  farm  houses,  two  country  roads,  which  have  since 
become  two  of  our  principal  thoroughfares  and  been  dignified  by  the  names  Main  street  and 
South  street,  and  a  stream,  flowing  through  the  centre  of  the  tract,  adding  to  its  beauty  and 
fertility,  doubtless,  but  also  to  the  annoyance  of  pedestrians  who  would  sink  ankle  deep  in 
the  mud.  This  is  somethmg  of  the  picture  which  the  old  residents  can  see  as  their  minds  go 
back  to  the  period  of  beginnings. 

Our  congregation  was  never  disturbed  and  startled,  in  those  old  davs,  bv  the  whistle 
of  the  engine  and  the  rush  of  the  railroad  train  carrying  Sunday  excursionists  to  the  shore, 
and  for  the  two  very  good  reasons  that  we  had  neither  railroad  or  church. 

.A.  trip  to  Philadelphia  necessitated  a  stage  ride  to  Freehold,  the  then  terminus  of  the 
railroad;  and  the  favoiite  route  to  New  York  was  by  stage  to  Red  Bank  and  thence  by  boat. 
What  would  our  fathers  have  thought  of  our  fast  Philadelphia  e.xpresses  and  our  eighty  trains 
a  day  to  and  from  New  York,  of  the  present  I 

Up  to  fift)  -five  years  ago  the  only  church  in  the  neighborhood  of  the  tow  n  was  the  P'riends' 
Meeting  House  nearly  a  mile  to  the  west.  The  nearest  Presbyterian  Churches  were  those  at 
Tennent,  about  twenty  miles  distance,  at  that  time  about  one  hundred  and  fifty  years  old,  at 
Shrewsbury  and  at  Freehold,  but  recently  organized.  The  people  of  the  community  were 
thus  dependent,  for  the  privileges  of  public  worship,  upon  visiting  ministers  and  distant 
churches.  This  condition  of  affairs  could  not  last,  and,  consequently  in  1843.  a  Union  Church 
was  built  on  the  hill  overlooking  the  village.  The  building  still  stands  and  is  used  as  a 
cemetery  chapel.  It  is  only  justice  to  say  that  Presbyterians  were  the  most  active  promoters 
of  this  project  and  the  largest  contributors. 

Here  four  denominations  worshiped — the  M.  P.. .  M.  P.,  Baptist  and  Presbyterian,  an 
agreement  being  entered  into  concerning  the  times  <if  services.  Among  others  who  preached 
for  the  Presbyterians  were  the  Revs.  Mr.  Newell,  Joseph  Blythe,  Charles  Webster,  Rufus 
Taylor,  and  Morse  Rowell. 

Mr.  Rowell  was  a  young  man.  having  been  ordained  and  installed  as  pastor  of  the 
church  at  Manchester,  N.  j.,  in  1845.  but  he  was  a  true  servant  of  the  Lord,  full  of  earnest- 
ness and  zeal  in  the  Lord's  service.  It  was  largely  through  his  influence  that  our  fathers  de- 
termined, in  1848,  to  organizea  Presbyterian  Church  and  to  erect  a  suitable  House  of  Worship. 

This  organization  was  effected  April  11,  1848,  the  Revs.  Charles  Webster,  Rufus 
Taylor  and  Morse  Rowell  being  the  organizers,  and  Thomas  [.  Brannin,  Elizabeth  Brannin, 
(".eorge  Rankin,  Mary  E.  Osborn,  Jane  Shaddock,  Elizabeth  Bennett,  Mary  E.  House,  P.  D. 
Kneiskem,  M.  D.,  and  James  Walker,  being  the  first  members.  Mr.  T.  J.  Brannin  was 
elected  ruling  elder,  and  the  Rev.  Mr.  Rowell  was  invited  to  serve  the  infant  church  as  stated 
supply. 

Before  this,  however,  early  in  the  year  1848,  subscriptions  had  been  m.ade  to  the  church 
buildmg,  and  on  April  4th  the  subscribers  met  and  named  as  a  Building  Committee,  Col. 
.Abram  Osborn,  Mr.  Osborn  Curtis,  and  the  Rev.  Morse  Rowell.  The  corner-stone  was  laid 
in  the  presence  of  a  •■  large  assembly  "  in  June  1848  and  the  church  was  dedicated  March  i, 


1 849-  On  August  lo,  1849,  the  congregation  elected  its  first  trustees  as  follows — T.  J.  Hrannni, 
Samuel  N.  Osborn,  and  Osborn  Curtis,  to  whom,  on  October  2nd  of  the  same  year,  the 
property  was  conveyed  by  the  Building  Committee. 

In  addition  to  those  named  above  the  following  were  members  of  the  congregation 
and  contributors  to  the  building  fund,  and  to  the  support  of  the  church— Rice  Hadsell,  Wm. 
H.  Bailey,  Allen  Osborn,  C.  M.  Graham,  M.  U.,  Col.  T.  Osborn,  R.  Laird,  M.  U.,  Col. 
James  Osborn,  James  Rankin,  Henry  Green,  Ebenezer  Allen  and  D.  L.  Huntsinger. 

Mr.  Rowell,  having  been  called  by  the  congregation,  was  installed  June  13th,  1850, 
by  the  then  Presbytery  of  New  Brunswick,  as  the  church's  first  pastor.  On  May  7th,  1S51,  action 
was  taken  which  led  to  the  establishment  of  a  "  Parochial  School,"  and  a  building  for  this 
purpose  was  erected,  which  is  the  nucleus  of  our  present  chapel. 

Another  forward  step  was  the  erection,  about  this  time,  of  the  "Second  Church,"  for 
the  convenience  of  those  living  in  that  neighborhood.  The  building,  which  still  stands,  has 
since  fallen  into  disuse. 

Mr.  RowelPs  pastorate  ended  May  Sth,  1856,  when  he  resigned  to  assume  charge  of  a 
Mission  Chapel  in  New  York;  which,  through  his  labors,  grew  into  the  Alexander  Church. 
The  pastorate  thus  closed  was  one  of  great  earnestness  of  purpose,  and  self-sacrifice.  Mr. 
Rowell's  labors  here  were  almost  apostolic,  and  he  overcame  difficulties  and  surmounted 
obstacles  which  would  have  discouraged  a  man  of  less  sturdy  mould  and  weaker  faith.  His 
death  occurred  ofapople.xy,  at  Miller's  Place,  L.  I.,  February  2nd,  1886,  in  the  71st  year  of 
his  age.      His  was  the  period  of  faithful  seed  sowing;   the  harvest  was  not  yet. 

In  September,  1856,  the  congregation  called  the  Rev.  Henry  K.  .Avery  to  the  office  of 
pastor.  The  call  being  accepted,  Mr.  Avery,  was  installed  February  24,  1857.  This  second 
pastorate  was  a  short  one,  being  terminated,  November  4tli,  1858,  by  the  resignation  of  :\lr. 
Avery.     -The  membership  of  the  church  had  now  grown  from  the  original  nine  to  forty. 

During  the  summer  of  i860,  under  the  direction  of  the  Missionary  Committee  of  the 
Monmouth  Presbytery,  which  had,  the  previous  year,  Ix-en  formed  from  the  Presbytery  of 
New  Pjrunswick,  Mr.  Samuel  Alden  Freeman,  then  a  senior  in  Princeton  Seminary  and  now 
the  Rc\-.  Dr.  Freeman,  supplied  the  pulpit  of  the  church.  "  Licensed  to  preach  by  the 
Presbytery  of  Monmouth  in  April  1861,  he  again  supplied  the  church  during  the  summer, 
temporarily  taking  the  place  of  Rev.  Thomas  B.  Hunt,  pastor-elect,  absent  at  the  front  as 
Chaplain  of  a  regiment  of  three  month  volunteers.  Mr.  Hunt  having  later  accepted  the 
Chaplaincy  of  a  three  years'  regiment,  Mr.  Freeman,  in  response  to  an  urgent  invitation  of 
the  church,  then  numbering  but  about  forty  members,  returned  to  them  in  October  1861,  and 
was  ordained  as  an  evangelist  that  same  month  at  a  meeting  of  Presbytery  at  Oceanic.  In 
May  1864,  [June  7th,  (?)]  a  year  marked  by  a  gracious  spiritual  ingathering  into  the  church. 
he  was  formally  installed  as  pastor."  In  October  1868,  [November  3rd,  (?)]  the  pastoral 
relation  was  dissolved  at  Mr.  Freeman's  request,  he  desiring  to  accept  a  call  to  Pennsylvania. 
During  his  pastorate  the  church  enjoyed  a  healthy  growth  and  the  membership  of  the  Sabbath 
School  rose  to  two  hundred,  a  greater  number  than  it  has  ever  since  enrolled.  Nevertheless 
the  struggle  was  great  and  some  of  the  friends  of  the  church  were  fearful  lest  it  would  sink 
beneath  its  burdens. 

Mr.  Freeman  was  followed  by  a  Father  in  Israel,  the  Re\  .  C.  F.  Worrell,  I).  D.,  who 
coming  from  Perrineville,  N.  J.,  where  he  had  served  the  church  for  twenty-seven  years, 
acted  as  stated  supply  for  two  years,  and  on  January  31st,   1872,  was  installed  as  pastor. 

His  pastorate  marks  a  decided  growth  in  all  of  the  activities  of  the  church.  The 
har\est  began  to  appear. 

(Concluded  on  last  page) 


Charles  Sf.  Ulorrcll,  5).  H). 


©rbev  of  Sevvice, 

Sun^a^,   april   lOtb,   1898, 
10.45  a.  fID. 


©rgan  prelu&e. 
H)o.rolOGY>. 
invocation. 
JAmnn  640. 


Scripture    IRCa^intJ.      (Responsive) 


Minister. — Blessing  and  glory  and  wisdom  and  thanksgiving  and  honor  and 

power  and  might  be  unto  our  God  for  ever  and  ever. 
People. — Amen  ! 

MiN. — Behold,  the  tabernacle  of  God  is  with  men  and  He  shall  dwell  with  them. 
Peo. — And  they  shall  be  His  people,  and    God    himself   shall    be  with  them, 

and  be  their  God. 
Mix. — Lord,  who  shall  sojourn  in  Thy  tabernacle  ? 
Peo.— Who  shall  dwell  in  Thy  holy  hill  ? 
Ml.N. — He  that  walketh  uprightly  and  worketh  :i.,'hteousness. 
Peg. — -And  speaketh  the  truth  in  his  heart. 
Mix. — Who  shall  ascend  into  the  hill  of  the  Lord  ? 
Peo. — And  who  shall  stand  in  the  holy  place  ? 
MiN. — He  that  hath  clean  hands  and  a  pure  heart, 
Peo. — Who    hath    not    lifted    up    his    soul    unto    vanity,  and  hath  not  sworn 

deceitfully, 
MiN. — He  shall  receive  a  blessing  from  the  Lord, 
Peg. — And  righteousness  from  the  God  of  his  salvation. 

MiN. — Lift  up  your  heads,  O  ye  gates;   yea,  life  them  up.ye  eve:-lasting  doors, 
Peo. — .And  the  King  of  Glory  shall  come  in. 
Mix. — Who  is  the  King  of  Glory  ? 
Peg. — The  Lord  of  hosts — He  is  the  King  of  Glory. 
Mix. — But  will  God  in  very  deed  dwell  on  the  earth  ?  Behold  heaven  and  the 

heaven  of  heavens  cannot  contain   Thee;  how  much   less  this  house 

which  we  have  builded. 
Peo. — Yet  have  respect,  O  Lord,  unto    the    prayer    which  Thy  servants  pray 

before  Thee  this  day,  that  Thine  eyes  may  be  open  towards  this  house 

night  and  day. 
Mix. — Let  the  beauty  of  the  Lord  om-  God  be  upon  us, 
Peo.— -.And  establish  Thou  the  work  of  our   hands  upon  us;   yea,  the  work  of 

our  hands  establish  Thou  it. 

HUtbem,    "Xle    IDeUni   XaU&amU5,"    (Hymnal  \o.  moo)     -      -     -     By  the  Chcir. 

Scripture  Xesson. 


lPra\?er. 

IRotices. 

©ffcrinos. 

©tfcrtor^  praver. 

M\?mn  964. 

^Historical  Sermon,    -   -----   -----   -----  By  the  Pastor. 

Wsmn  441. 

Hnniversarp  prater,  (in  unison) 

HlniiObtV  OOC),  our  Heavenly  Father,  whose  throne  is  in  the 
heavens;  yet  who  dust  condescend  to  dwell  with  thy  people,  and  to  make  the 
Sanctuaries  which  we  build,  thy  Home. 

Ever  blessed  Lord  Jesus,  who  didst  break  the  bars  of  death  and  ascend 
CTloriously  on  high;  yet  who,  by  thy  Holy  Spirit,  art  ever  with  us. 

Thou  Triune  God,  Father,  Son,  and  Holy  Spirit,  we  bless  and  laud  and 
magnify  thy  name. 

We  praise  thee  that  this  House,  which  our  fathers  built,  has  been,  in 
name  not  only,  but  in  very  truth,  a  Lord's  House.  As  we  have  listened  to 
the  precious  F.vangel,  many  of  us  ha\e  been  born  anew,  and  we  all  ha\e 
been  inspired  to  holier  living. 

We  praise  thee  for  our  sainted  dead,  for  those  who  in  this  place,  out  of 
their  love  to  thee  and  for  thy  Blessed  Kingdom,  have  borne  the  heat  and 
burden  of  the  day.   They  rest  from  their  labors  and  their  works  do  follow  them. 

Send  down  upon  the  Pastors  of  this  Church,  who  still  live  to  serve  thee 
on  earth,  upon  their  families,  and  upon  the  families  of  thy  faithful  servants, 
w  ho  ha\e  ministered  here  and  whom  thou  hast  taken  to  their  great  reward, 
plenteous  showers  of  thy  grace,  and  grant  that  thy  truth,  proclaimed  here, 
may  become  to  each  one  of  us  the  power  of  God  to  salvation. 

Hitherto,  O  Lord,  thou  hast  blest  us;  firmly  though  tenderly  thou  hast 
led  us,  and  brought  us  to  a  large  place.  Grant,  we  beseech  thee,  that  our 
fathers'  God  may  be  our  God;  that  we  may  prove  worthy  to  be  much  used  by 
thee  in  the  establishment  of  thy  Kingdom,  and  that,  by  faith  in  Jesus  Christ, 
we  may  all  be  brought  to  the  House  of  the  Lord  above. 

And  to  the  Father,  and  to  the  Son,  and  to  the  Holy  Spirit,  be  glory  and 
praise,  world  without  end.     StTlCU. 

IResponse,  (Hy  the  choir) 

Lord,  have  merc)'  upon  us,  and  hear  all  these  the  prayers  of  our  hearts, 
we  beseech  thee. 

Bene5iction. 
©rgan  lPostlu5e. 


JfrcCcrich  C.  JSrown,  3.  5>. 


©rber  of  Service, 

Sun^av^  Hpril   lOtb,   1898, 
7.30  p.  fID. 

©rtian  lPreluC>e. 

IHVlllU   578.      (Rise  and  Si n.i,'  without  Announcement) 

Xlbc  XorD'9  praver.    dni-nison) 

Scripture  lRea5ing.    (Responsive) 

I'salm  i.xxxi\-;  Page  4.  "  Kesponsix  e  Readings." 

MiNlSTKK. — How  amiable  are  th\  tabernacles,  O  Lord  of  hosts  '. 

People. — My  soul  longeth,  yea,  even  fainteth  for  the  courts  of  the  Lord: 

Mix. — My  heart  and  my  flesh  crieth  out  for  the  living  God. 

Peo. — Yea,  the  sparrow  hath  found  an  house,  and  the  swallow  a  nest  for  her- 
self, where  she  may  lay  her  young, 

MiN. — Even  thine  altars,  O  Lord  of  hosts,  my  King,  and  mv  ( lod  ! 

Peo. — Blessed  are  they  that  dwell  in  thy  house:  they  will  be  still  praising  thee. 

MiN. — Blessed  is  the  man  whose  strength  is  in  thee;  in  whose  heart  are  the 
ways  of  them, 

Peo. — Who  passing  through  the  valley  of  Baca  make  it  a  well;  the  rain  also 
filleth  the  pools. 

Ml.N. — They  go  from  strength  to  strength,  every  one  of  them  in  Zion  ap- 
peareth  before  God. 

Peo. — O  Lord  God  of  hosts,  hear  my  prayer:  gi\  e  ear,  O  God  of  Jacob. 

Ml.\. — Behold,  O  God  our  Shield  !  and  look  upon  the  face  of  thine  Anointed. 

Peo. — For  a  day  in  thy  courts  is  better  than  a  thousand. 

.Mix. — I  had  rather  be  a  doorkeeper  in  the  house  of  my  (;od,  than  to  dwell  in 
the  tents  of  wickedness. 

Peo. — For  the  Lord  (}od  is  a  Sun  and  Shield;  the  Lord  will  give  grace  and 
glory:  no  good  thing  will  he  withhold  from  them  that  walk  uprightly. 

MiN — '-^  Lord  of  hosts  !  blessed  is  the  man  that  trusteth  in  thee. 

HUtbem,    "  Gloria    in    ]E.rCelS15,"    (Hymnal  No.  973)      -      .     -     .     By  the  choir 

Scripture  Xesson. 

pvavcv. 

IHsmn  856. 


XEbe  apostles'  (Iree&. 

I  belie\e  iii  (lod,  the  Father  Almight),  maker  of  heaven  and  earth:  and 
in  Jesus  Christ,  his  only  Son,  our  Lord;  who  was  conceived  by  the  Holy  (Ihost, 
born  of  the  Virgin  Mary,  suffered  under  Pontius  Pilate,  was  crucified,  dead 
and  buried;  he  descended  into  hell;  the  third  day  he  rose  again  from  the 
dead;  he  ascended  into  heaven,  and  sitteth  on  the  right  hand  of  God,  the 
Father  Almighty;  from  thence  he  shall  come  to  judge  the  quick  and  the  dead. 

I  believe  in  the  Holy  Ghost;  the  Holy  Catholic  Church,  the  communion 
of  saints;  the  forgiveness  of  sins;  the  resurrection  of  the  body;  and  the  life 
everlasting.      Amkx. 

(Bloria  patri. 

C;iory  be  to  the  Father,  and  to  the  Son,  and  to  the  Holy  Ghost;  as  it  was 
in  the  beginning,  is  now  ,  and  c\cr  shall  be,  world  without  end.      Amen. 

THotices. 

©fferiugs. 

©ffcrtory  iPraver. 

Sermon,  *'Ube  (Ibaraeteristic  H)octrines  ot  tbe  iPresbPterian 

CbUrCb,"    -    -    liythe  Rev.  Kdward  B.  Hodge,  U.  U.,  I'hiladelphi 

iHv?mu  922. 
Iprager. 
Beue&iction. 
©rgau  postluDe. 


IHatban  ©uebanc  Mvinson. 


flI>on^a\>,   Hpiil   ntb, 

7.30  p.  /ID. 

(5rcctino6  from  at  Momc  anb  Bbroab. 

a^^rc05C5. 

Cbc  IRcv.  Mciuv  Cross, 

IRcrrcscntiiii!  tbc  local  iPaetor^. 
Cbc  IRcv.  (IhaC>J>cu6  tUilson,  D.  H)., 

1Rcrrc£icntiiui  the  iprcsbvtcrv;  of  flftonmoutb. 
Cbc  IRcv.  Cbas.  iHcrr,  3.  3..  Jcrecv  Citv,  1R.  3., 

IRcprCijcntnui  tbc  Svno^  of  IRcw  Scrscv. 


;Iuc5^av^  BprU   I2tb, 
7.30  p.  m. 

a^^rc55. 

TLbc  Cburcb  ot  tbc  Xlwcutictb  Ccnturv?," 

Cbc  IRcv.  lUllton  /liberie  Smitb,  5).  5>.,  IRcw  IJorft. 


Mc^nc6^av^  april   I3tb, 

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